The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-09
hR. SECRETARY MANNING,
ACCOMPANIED BY HIS FAMILY
AND MR.. JORDAN,
wiz Sail for Europe on Tuesday
Next-Judge Arthur Mac
arthur Resigns.
THE FO0TINGs OF TBR APPRO-
PRIATION BILLS
Passed by the Last COngress-An
IAferDal Machine Ia the
Mails.

manning mas arranged 10 make 8
trip to Europe for the benefit q
his heslth. He will leave Wash.
ington Thursday for New York and
take a steamer sailing from there on
Tuesday next. He will be accompanied
by his wife and family and Treasurer
Jordan. The latter ia now in New
York, but will return to Washington
prior to his departure for Europe.
JUDGE ARTHUR MACARTHUR RKsIaNs
Last evening the Hon. Arthur
Macarthur, Associate Justice OF the
Supreme Court of the District OF
Columbia, at present holding the
Criminal Court, handed his resigns.
ton to President Cleveland, to take
effect on April 1st next. This action
was entirely unexpected by members
of the bar and citizens generally.
Judge Macarthur was appointed TO
the Supreme Bench of this district
July 10, 1870, and has since been a
most diligent and faithful judicial
officer. He was, before he came here,
prominent lawyer of Wisconsin, and
said to have been a recognized leader
OF the Republican party of that State
SUPPRESSION OF PLEUR0 PNEUMONIA.
An understanding was reached be.
tween committee representing the
American Cattle Breeders Assoc alton
and the Commissioner Of Agriculture,
which promises more efficient Coop
Grafton between the association and
the Department OF Agriculture in the
suppression Of p'euro pneumonia.
ALLOWANCE OF DAMAGE TO IMPORT
WOOL DENIED.
Application was recently made to
the Treasury Department for an allow
ance OF damages on an importation OF
wool, Notwithstanding application for
such allowance was not made within
ten days from the date OF landing. TIE
importers represented that they were
prevented from fling the application
within the required time by reason OF
the delay in transferring the mer-
chandise from the import vessel to
the bonded lighter and to the delay in
unloading from the lighter because of
bad weather and the strike of the
loDgshoremen. The application was
denied by Acting Secretary Fairchild
because he did not think the reasons
cited sufficient to suthor'zs him to
disregard the plain provisions of the
law governing allowances for damage.
ARxIce-GUATKMALA TELEGRAPH LINE.
Mr.. Henry @. Hall, United States
Minister to Central America, informs
the Secretary Of State that on F. bru-
airy 9th direct communication was FIR
mally inaugurated and opened be-
tween Guatemala and Mexico by the
extension of the Mexican Land lines
to Guatemala. This arrangement
places Mexico in close communication
with Guatemala and other Central
American States. The lines in all are
owned and maintained by the govern
ments, and intercommunicate with a
uniform rate.
AN INFRRNAL MACHINE ADDRESSED TO
TIE PRINCE OF WALES.
A package has been received at the
Dead Letter Office, which was msiled
in Boston and addressed to the Prince
Of Wales, London, England. 1t was
held for postage. When it was opened
it was found TO contain a brass figure
OF Christ, evidently detached from q
small eruciix and small glass tube
containing white liquid and having
two wires running through the tube
and projected from both ends. A
paper inclosed contained an inco-
herent sentence. The dead letter of
fcisls were apprshensive that the
glass tube might be an internal ma
chine, as 1t was carefully packed in
cotton, and they are trying to fiud |
some one who will test the qualities |
Of the liquid.
An APPEAL FROM OPIUM IMPORTERS.
The Treasury Department has rs-
Ceived an appeal from the action of |
the Collector f Customs at San Fran
cisco in assessing duty at the rate of
$40 per pound on certain imported
opium which the appellants claim to
be crude opium, containing less than
8 per cent. of morphia. Samples of |
the importation were submitted to |
chemical experts at the Department |
Of Agriculture, who, after careful |
analysis, reported that the article con-
sists OF moist opium gum containing
9 80 per cent. of morphia, the per.
centage of moisture being 21.10 per
cent. The chemical experts in the |
Office OF the United States Appraiser
at New York also corroboratsd this
analysis. The New York Appraiser,
in his report, says the sample does not
indicate that 1t has been subjected to
any special preparation, and gives his
opinion that it is crude Indian
opium, which meets fully the descrip-
ton OF Bengal opium, as given in the
United States Dispensatory. Acting
Secretary Fairchild, in letter to the
Collector at San Frsncisco on the SUBJ
jact, says that the representations of
the appellants appear to be cor! ect;
that the opium is crude, that it con-
tsins less than per cent. of morphia,
and also that 1t is not en- tiled to entry,
The Collector is instructed to be gov
erned by articles 5l6 and 5l7 OF the
Customs Regulations of 1884, and
either require the expectation of the
opium within six months after March
9TH or else its destruction.
IN THE OLD INTERFERENCE Gaze
between ]. W. McDonough, Elisha
Gray, 7. A. Edison and Alexander
Graham Bell, Mr.. NcDonugh has
fled with Commissioner OF Patents a
petition asking an orderreopening the
Interference and for leave 10 furnish
further proof in regard to the opera
tiveness of his telephone. Upon re-
ceiving this petition an order was
made by the Commissioner directing
that all the parties to the proceedings
should be served with notice OF the
tendency of this petition, aud that
hnal hearing and deposition thereof
would be made on the 18th i1st. In
this case McDonough was awarded
priority OF invention by the Exam
iner-in-chief of Interference to the
telephone receiver, but this decision
was subsequently reversed by the
COMMISSIONER.
RESERVE CITIES.
The Comptroller Of the Currency to-
day a certified copy OF the act OF Con-
gress providing for the establishment
OF reserve cities, and at once prepared
rp0fIlRtiona for its exacution TTndar